Ryan Betschart
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- July 16, 1985
Ryan is co-director and head curator of San Diego Underground Film Festival (MovieMaker Magazine Top 50 Festivals Worth the Entry Fee), has programmed for Slamdance Film Festival, has taught Adjunct at CalArts, and is currently a Lecturer at UC San Diego in the Cinematic Arts Program. His films have screened at Fantasia, Slamdance, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Porto Post/Doc, Hammer Museum, REDCAT, Desert Daze, and have won awards at Slamdance, Athens International Film and Video Festival, Indie Memphis, Arizona Underground. His band Shrine Maiden's album And I Arise was named one the Top 10 Experimental Albums of 2020 by Outtallectuals zine. Their 4th album is due out October 31st 2025 on Whited Sepulchre Records. Ryan holds an MFA in Film/Video from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), and a BA in Visual Art from UC San Diego.
Filmography
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A Theory of /Cloud/ 2025
Director, Music
Operation Wandering Soul ////////// Ghost Tape Number 10 2025
Director, Writer
Ua 'ike au 2025
Director
kino lau: many bodies 2024
Director
body / negative - everett (feat. Midwife) 2023
Director
An Example of Lee-Roth Fog, Isolated Under Laboratory Conditions 2022
Director
The Flaw in the Crystal 2021
Director
Sun Sonification 2021
Director
The Second Body 2020
Director
A Peculiar Week in My Dream Journal May 1973 2019
Director, Writer
A Collection of Attempts in Astral Travel 2019
Director
There Must Be a Safe Space to Load the Building Materials 2018
Director
Zablah 2018
Director, Writer
Towards the Experimental Control of Dreaming 2018
Director
The Mandela Effect 2018
Director
The Sacred Mushroom Edition (For Kenneth Anger, by way of Kuchar) 2017
Director
Girl Becomes Snow 2017
Director
Cup of Stars 2015
as Himself, Director
Pudding 2015
Director
Tropical Fractals 2026
Associate Producer, Sound Recordist
A Storm at Sea 2025
Producer, Music
And I Arise (Reprise) 2025
Producer, Music
False Expectations 2023
Music, Producer
kāua - we (you and i) 2023
Producer
Cousins 2021
Producer
婦人 (Fujin) 2020
Producer
Credits from TMDB.